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My students come to me for math tutoring because they continue to flounder with the "new math" curriculum. For a complete description of what is being taught and how it feels for students, see Part I of this series. Part I – The New Math: Why We Have It
If expert mathematicians have redesigned the curriculum, why aren't the results better?
I believe it's because the experts aren't taking into account the developmental stages of most students, and because they really aren't aware of the problems most classroom teachers are faced with.
The new math teaching methods are mainly designed to create:
1.) the ability to work in cross-disciplinary teams;
2.) understanding (now viewed as even more important than being able to compute); and
3.) innovative and divergent math thinkers–the three characteristics increasingly required of white-collar jobs in industry today.
Yet the new math curriculum is failing to achieve these goals. Let's take a look at WHY, by seeing how these things actually play out in most classrooms.
How These Three Goals Actually Work Out in Classrooms:
1. Creating an ability to work in cross-disciplinary teams. The idea is clearly that "putting students in groups to solve problems" will create this ability. However, there are TWO IMPORTANT REASONS why this is not happening in most classrooms. The first reason is BULLYING, and the second reason is STUDENT ATTITUDE and LACK OF MATURITY.
Middle-school, when most students are first put into math-solution groups, is the age of the MOST EXTREME BULLYING (although bullying starts in Kindergarten). Students are usually left to sort themselves into groups, and usually, in-crowd friends choose each other, while the remaining students are randomly forced into groups with students who regularly bully them. This same situation continues in many high-school classes, and is sometimes worst of all in the smallest schools where there is only one math class per grade.
It takes an extremely effective teacher who can give groups precise tasks, direction, and rewards based on individual effort to get a group to make effective progress. Generally what happens is one of several things. The students don't understand what they are doing at all and therefore have no idea (or motivation) even to try. They end up wasting time and talking about non-math-related matters. Or, at best, one or two students do understand and do the work, while the others loaf and do nothing, but coast on the group grade (if there is one), having not done the work, and not understanding the work that was done by the others. Or, those who are friends in the group use the hour as a social time, while the unwanted group members spend the time staring at their papers, feeling excluded, and just wasting the whole hour.
Requirements for effective group work are: 1.) being in a group with others you like or respect, and others who like or respect you; 2.) Having enough background in the subject, that when given A SPECIFIC TASK, all the individuals in the group can work on it; 3.) Being able to effectively subdivide tasks; and 4.) Having individual accountability for one's contributions to the group. Most teachers do not have either sufficient time or experience to be effective in all these ways and rely on immature students who are not willing/able to these things themselves (as an adult work group would be able to do).
2. Creating understanding of WHY methods work, rather than merely learning computational solutions. This is an admirable goal, but it is not being correctly implemented at the proper ages, in the proper stages, or in the proper ways.
Mental maturity, and ability to deal with abstract concepts arrives at different times for different students. Abstract thinking arrives for a very few students in the lower elementary grades, for a few more students in the upper elementary grades, for about half of students by middle school, and for at best two-thirds of students by high school and early adulthood. For some people, it never arrives at all. Having taught a great variety of math topics over the years, some students grasp one topic at a young age, but don't grasp another until many years later, if at all. Since every student has a unique profile of what they grasp or don't grasp, this is the origin of the "spiral curriculum," where each year, many topics are introduced, and each year, the math texts cut slightly deeper into each topic (assuming the school is still using math texts).
Let us take telling time as an example. A few students are able to grasp telling time well in kindergarten, while others, no matter HOW much time is spent in the classroom in grades two and three, just cannot grasp it until fifth grade. Then suddenly, something "clicks." Their brain has arrived at the right level of mental maturity.
Unfortunately, today's curriculum introduces so many topics that few are actually mastered. Thus, many students move up through the grades NEITHER understanding, NOR being proficient in calculating. Most students need and WANT to become proficient at calculating and getting the right answer in the elementary grades. This builds their confidence. They also want to know in what situations they might use those skills (which gives learners motivation, and is often an area neglected by teachers). Those who do not become proficient at calculating lose confidence in themselves and are certainly even LESS likely to be open to any discussions of "understanding."
A current controversial topic in the math field is whether students need a certain amount of proficiency before they can understand "why" things work. After two decades of experience teaching math at the elementary and middle-school levels, I come down hard on the side that it IS necessary. Young elementary students can appreciate that a correct answer can be found through several different methods, but it is a waste of precious class time AT THAT AGE to spend a lot of time on WHY (an abstract concept which despite the weeks spent on it does not actually increase their understanding) instead of on developing proficiency and thereby building students' confidence and excitement about learning more.
It was not the intent of the math experts, I am sure, in revising math curriculum, to have students wind up being neither able to understand, NOR be able to calculate! Their intent was to WIDEN the curriculum to INCLUDE more understanding. But with only four-to-five hours a week (at best) of classroom time to teach math per week, at least half of the available time is being taken up with "understanding" (which is not being understood by the majority of students), and not enough time for most students to become proficient at calculating. Those who do become proficient are generally having additional support from parents and tutors. Furthermore, homework has been greatly reduced from a decade ago (approximately cut in half) which means that more students than ever before are not mastering basic procedures. When students get into middle school and one-third of them still cannot determine the answer to 3 x 8 without consulting their calculators, it is highly unlikely they will gain any "higher understanding."
3. Creating innovative and divergent math thinkers. Criticisms of the past were that students were memorizing times tables and learning to calculate, but not understanding what those calculations meant; students were unable to take even a simple story problem and know which calculations to perform.
After two decades in the classroom, I can easily see this problem did not stem from memorizing or calculating. This problem stemmed from teachers throughout school not teaching children how to TRANSLATE between English words, and math language. In most cases, elementary teachers are not math majors. In fact, most became elementary teachers because they are math-phobic! They teach the calculations, and generally skip all the story problems (as did I when I first began to teach math). Yes, it is partly a time problem, but the REAL problem is that most teachers are afraid they will not be able to explain to students how to do story problems, because they never learned themselves! Speaking as someone who did not learn this skill myself until I was an adult, I see that this is the number one area that students need the MOST help with. I find myself wondering if students in India, China, and Japan are getting this sort of help from a young age, while students in the West are not?
Rather than wasting precious elementary time on esoteric math subjects, and making "arrays" for WEEKS in order to "understand" multiplication, students would be much better served learning to calculate, and having DAILY GUIDED PRACTICE on particular types of story problems, both in order to recognize types of problems, and to be able to readily understand how to translate the English language into MATH language.
What the math "experts" who design curriculum are not realizing is that showing students all the different possible ways to solve every type of math problem does NOT create the "divergent" innovative thinkers they are looking for.
As for math majors, sometimes (not always), those who were brilliant in math are unable to explain it clearly to those who are having trouble, because the teachers never experienced those same troubles themselves. Sometimes (not always) teachers who were not good math students are able to master math, and are far better at figuring out where and why students are "stuck." Lucky children with difficulties have those teachers! The very first requirement for becoming a divergent thinker is self-confidence in one's own abilities. This comes from being sure that one knows at least ONE way to get the right answer every time, even if one knows that other ways do exist. The main thing is to MASTER at least one method.
Beyond competence, creating divergent thinkers is more of a personality-trait question. This question has more to do with motivation and stimulating interest, and comes from the sort of child who always asks, "Why?" Most children don't ask why, and most don't care about why. To create more innovative, divergent thinkers, every teacher in every classroom, in every subject, needs to challenge ideas and get students excited about learning. And yes, teachers need to be "entertaining," too! Innovative thinkers aren't usually innovative in just one area (such as math). Most innovative thinkers draw their ideas from multiple sources and synthesis of ideas from multiple disciplines. Students need help becoming competent, and beyond that, to be inspired enough to pursue their own interests in a self-directed way. Curriculum which forces students to calculate by many different methods fatigues many students and actually de-motivates them from further self-directed learning.
It is difficult for a new or average teacher to overcome these difficulties. Hopefully with time and experience, Western society will adjust to the new math curriculum, but I am afraid it will be later, rather than sooner.
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Your walking speed can tell a lot about you - including your life expectancy. Amazingly, your walking speed is just as good an indicator of how long you'll live as your health history, smoking habits, and blood pressure combined.
It's possible to do a basic life expectancy calculation based on a person's age and gender, but there's no real way to know how accurate that estimate is for any given person without knowing more about his or her medical history. You can figure out a more detailed estimate by combining information about a person's chronic conditions, medical conditions, blood pressure, body mass index, and hospitalization history, but it turns out you can get just as good an answer with ten feet of pavement and a stopwatch.
That's the discovery made by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, who have put together nine studies that ran from 1986 to 2000 that investigated the relationship between walking speed and life expectancy in senior citizens. The results revealed a clear link between the two variables, the researchers explain:
"Predicted years of remaining life for each sex and age increased as gait speed increased, with a gait speed of about 0.8 meters [2.6 feet]/second at the median [midpoint] life expectancy at most ages for both sexes. Gait speeds of 1.0 meter [3.3 feet]/second or higher consistently demonstrated survival that was longer than expected by age and sex alone. In this older adult population the relationship of gait speed with remaining years of life was consistent across age groups, but the absolute number of expected remaining years of life was larger at younger ages."
Simply looking at a person's age, gender, and walking speed is as reliable a predictor of life expectancy as any other known method. Admittedly, estimating life expectancy is still an inexact science, but it's pretty awesome - and maybe a little disturbing - that there's such a simple way to estimate how many years you've got left. But why is walking speed such a powerful indicator? The researchers have an idea:
"Walking requires energy, movement control, and support and places demands on multiple organ systems, including the heart, lungs, circulatory, nervous, and musculoskeletal systems. Slowing gait may reflect both damaged systems and a high energy cost of walking."
Now, a person's health is obviously a complex thing, and it's not as though a person's walking speed can magically reveal everything about a person's constitution. That said, it probably wouldn't hurt to try quickening the pace every once in a while.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are now expected to vote "no" if President Barack Obama nominates former economics adviser Lawrence Summers to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, complicating one of the most vital decisions of his second term.
Jon Tester on Friday became the latest member to publicly announce his opposition, taking to three the number of senators on the committee who are known to be against Summers, while a fourth, Elizabeth Warren, is also expected to be a "no" vote.
"Senator Tester believes we need a consensus builder to lead the Federal Reserve. He's concerned about Mr. Summers' history of helping to deregulate financial markets," said Andrea Helling, spokeswoman for the Montana Democrat.
Summers is widely thought to be Obama's preferred choice to replace Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term ends in January. The White House said on Friday that the president had not yet made a decision.
Obama's impending decision on who should lead the U.S. central bank has sparked a highly unusual and vitriolic public debate over a position that in the past generated little interest beyond Wall Street and academia.
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen is also a candidate for the job.
Twenty Senate Democrats had already signed a letter urging Obama to nominate Yellen, although Tester was not among them. Yellen would be the first-ever woman to lead the U.S. central bank, if nominated and confirmed.
Other Democrats are unhappy with Summers, who served as Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, because of his backing for banking deregulation in the 1990s, which they blame for sowing the seeds of the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
The financial crisis led to a massive taxpayer bailout of Wall Street that continues to anger many ordinary Americans and could be another issue for Summers. He has close ties to the financial industry, where he is a highly paid consultant.
Tester implicitly nodded to Summers' closeness to Wall Street, rather than Main Street, as another reason for not wanting him to lead the Fed.
"The senator thinks it is vital to have a chair who appreciates the important role small community lending institutions play in financial markets," his office said.
Liberal opposition may make it harder for Obama to conclude that he can nominate his former adviser at a time when he needs their support on other difficult issues, including a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and to keep funding the government.
A vote on military action against Syria would also have spread his political capital thinly with progressives in Congress, but this was delayed earlier in the week.
Democratic defections on the Senate Banking Committee would mean that if Obama does choose Summers for the top Fed job, he would need support from Republican members to advance the nomination for consideration by the full Senate.
Democrats have 12 seats on the banking panel. Republicans have 10 seats.
Committee Democrat Sherrod Brown of Ohio has told Reuters he would vote against Summers, and congressional aides have said Oregon's Jeff Merkley would also oppose him.
Colleagues of Warren, a Democrat of Massachusetts, expect her to vote against Summers if he is nominated, sources familiar with the matter said. The sources said she has expressed concerns about Summers to her colleagues and had raised them with people in the White House. She has stayed silent out of respect for Obama.
It is highly unusual for senators to announce which way they are leaning before the president has formally announced his pick. Normally, they wait until the vetting committee has a chance to examine the candidate and then weigh in afterward.
Republicans have not said much publicly about Summers, although the party's second-ranking member in the Senate, John Cornyn, has announced he would not back him for the position, and a few other Republicans have also expressed opposition.
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The year 2009 was International Year of Astronomy, and to celebrate, we asked you what you'd most like to know about your Universe in a series of online polls. You came up with seven questions, which we put to world-leading astronomers and cosmologists. Find their answers in seven articles, as well as some podcasts.
The notion of proof lies at the very heart of maths: it's when it comes to proving things that mathematicians let lose their genius and creativity, and in the process often discover unexpected surprises or deep philosophical issues. But proofs can also be daunting. So to help you and your students along, we've brought together a range of Plus articles on proofs.
This teacher package brings together all Plus articles on graph and network theory. Graphs and networks turn up in many real-life problems, from neuroscience to telecommunications. In the UK curriculum, they make a frequent appearance in the area known as decision maths. Our articles explore a wide range of related topics, from simple algorithms to complex network topologies.
In this issue's teacher package we look at some of the maths and science behind a recent expedition to the Arctic. The aim of the Catlin Arctic Survey was to gather data on ice thickness that will help to predict when the North Pole sea ice cover will melt, an event that will have dramatic consequence for the Arctic ecosystem and the Earth's climate as a whole. Plus was commissioned by Catlin Arctic Survey Education to produce mathematics and science enrichment material for ages 14 to 19 (key stages 4 and 5). The toolkits look at climate and sea ice models, GPS and cartography, how to predict future climate trends, and how to present statistical evidence.
From the geometry of Euclid to the shape of the Universe — geometry is a vast field. We've got plenty of articles exploring geometry from all angles, so have a look and take your pick.
So basic, yet so tricky: prime numbers are the atoms among natural numbers and lie at the centre of some of the most difficult open problems in maths. This package brings together all material we have on primes, from prime number algorithms to new discoveries. And you will find out what all that's got to do with David Beckham.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch at home while you suffer through Day 5 of the Norwegian Death Flu that has infiltrated your household. Dear Lord, I feel like someone inflated a zeppelin inside my head. LET'S GO!
LIVE TO DANCE – 8:00PM (CBS) If you spent all of 2010 pining for Paula's Abdul's patented brand of acetaminophen-induced nonsensical gurgling, fear not. The former "American Idol" judge and part-time speaker of the English language resurfaces tonight on this CBS reality dance competition featuring 18 dance teams vying for a half million dollar grand prize. And while this may seem like just another cheap "Dancing With The Stars" retread, you'd best not underestimate Abdul's canniness. After all, she was the one who managed to ditch "Idol" first, right before it really went into the gutter last year. Coincidence? Or has Abdul taken so much medication that she can see things before they happen? Don't bet against the latter. ANTICIPATION: FOREVER YOUR GIRL!
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MY BIG BREASTS AND ME – 10:00PM (BBC America) Three women openly discuss the negative impact of being endowed with overly large mammaries. I guess appearing on international television is NOT one of the drawbacks, eh ladies? Seriously though, these women may have some pretty gnarly back problems. ANTICIPATION: EYES UP HERE!
BIGGEST LOSER: COUPLES – 8:00PM (NBC) In the season premiere, the fatty duos must choose between training with Bob and Jillian or training a mysterious pair of unknown trainers. Oooooh… ahhhhh! What surprises await them? Well, not to spoil it, but I'm told the two new trainers are both Shake Weights. ANTICIPATION: SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE!
CHOPPED – 10:00PM (Food Network) Tonight the chefs must use brains in one of their dishes. I used to serve brains in a restaurant I worked at, and the reason no one ordered them is because no matter how you slice them or serve them, they still very much look like brains. Can't say the same about cow testicles. ANTICIPATION: BRAINS!
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Matt_Fury - Thanks for the kind words. It will most likely be a couple of weeks before another chapter is up. I have a lot going on right now. But I'll try and post a couple of preview pics at least.DooMTrooper - Got the email, thanks buddy. Yeah, this series is planned to go beyond EP3, cover a lot of ground in the era between ROTS and ANH, and actually go way beyond ROTJ too. I've had plans for about 50 photonovels... but if I can keep it up, and the interest is there, it could be around 100 before it's all said and done. My mind is literally boggling with ideas.
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Tim Rundle Studio is a London based industrial design practice working in the field of product design, as well as interiors and consultancy. The studio brings simplicity to the intersection of architecture and its inhabitants, improving the manufactured environment through elegant, technically-refined solutions.
Tim Rundle is an industrial designer whose eponymous studio specialises in furniture and lighting design as well as interiors, installations, and strategic consultancy. He creates prototypes with his 3D printer and other tools until he finds the exact solution he seeks. Looking to classic Danish designers like Poul Kjærholm as inspiration, Rundle makes highly technical ideas into simplified, useful forms. 'A great product should look as good and work as well in the real world as it does in a photo shoot,' he tells us. 'It should positively but quietly add to the atmosphere of a real space without shouting for attention.'
Originally from New Zealand, prior to establishing his studio in 2015, Rundle graduated from the School of Architecture and Design at Victoria University of Wellington, going on to join Auckland-based Formworks Design, where he worked on the concept for Air New Zealand's groundbreaking Skycouch™ and Spaceseat.
In 2008, Rundle relocated to London, first joining design consultancy PriestmanGoode, then working with renowned British designer Tom Dixon as head designer for the furniture and lighting design team. Prior to setting up his own studio in 2015, Rundle was Design Director at Conran and Partners, the multidisciplinary design studio founded by Sir Terence Conran. Today, in addition to running his studio, Rundle teaches at Platform 23 – Design for Manufacture at the prestigious Design Products Master's programme at the Royal College of Art.
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I don't like music managers; I've said that many times over, and even made a point of mentioning it in the list of software I prefer. However, I gotta hand it to sacamano_m82, who made a clean little GTK2-plus-C music manager called Consonance.
Right now it has that clean, sparse feel that I really like in software. According to the post, the database is handled by sqlite3, and the dependencies are minimal. Arch users can install directly if you use yaourt; Ubuntu fans will need to work out a few dependencies, but I would suggest using the Arch PKGBUILD as a blueprint.
It has a few bugs to iron out, and it only handles mp3 files right now, but future releases should be very interesting. I'll be happy if it handles ogg files, and picks up a few more settings, like reopening to the last window dimensions.
Of course, it's not going to tear me away from Audacious (or AlsaPlayer, for that matter), but it does have potential. If you like music managers, that is. 😀


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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Jelly Fish People
Moved by the Current
No Longer Seeking Boxes
To Hide In
Happiness Becomes a Happening
No More Identity Goals
The Pressure You Feel
The Restrictions & Limitations
The Demands of Material Reality
The Pain of Living
A Natural Restrainer
Structure to Infinite Space
Where Would We Be
Without Limitations?
As We Go Deeper
Find Patterns Beneath Patterns
All the Way Down
To the Finest Pattern
That Hides the Original Wound...
The Only Way to Go
Is Down
And In
As Love Grows Deeper
The Wound Opens Wider
Rediscover the Pain
Of Too Much Tenderness
Jelly Fish people
Come Home
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- poseidon said...
some watery stuff for all!
- 7:26 am, July 17, 2009
- Jimi Hendrix said...
Moon, Turn the Tides ... Gently Gently Away
- 7:50 am, July 17, 2009
- DanAriiaNnu said...
Blessed be! ...Angels returning...StarBeasts of Love and Strength...We Salute Thee!
- 9:36 am, July 19, 2009
- Anonymous said...
.u..uh....aaah yeah....
- 10:01 am, July 19, 2009
- 1200 mics said...
speed of spirit!
- 10:41 am, July 19, 2009
- Anonymous said...
something for You Ae..o...li..!
- 10:52 am, July 19, 2009
- Kate and Peter said...
don't give up!
- 11:23 am, July 19, 2009
Jellyfish Heaven ~ Dead Milkmen
Gotta go somewhere
When you die
So why not see the world
Through jellyfish eyes
Jellyfish heaven
Where jellyfish go
To get away from Mormons
And drunk Eskimos
Jellyfish heaven
Is a lot
Like LA
If you're bad
You'll go to hell
And jellyfish will sting you
And your body will swell
Jellyfish heaven
In the big blue sea
Where it's too cold to surf
And it's too warm to ski
Jellyfish Heaven
Is full of dead
People always saying
"I won't eat jellyfish
'Cause they ain't got no bones
And you can't make a wish"
People always shouting
"Don't go swimming near those things!"
But when they're close to dying
You can hear them sing
Jellyfish heaven
Is not like Japan
Jellyfish heaven
Is not like Thailand
Jellyfish heaven
Is a lot
Like LA
Sweet jellyfish! [x2]
I've been dazed and confused
For so long it's not true
I wanted a jellyfish
Never bargained for you
Lot's of people talking
Few of them know
Soul of a jellyfish
Was created below!
Papa don't preach!
I'm gonna keep my jellyfish!
I've been tied to the jellyfish
Tied to the jellyfish [x2]
Oh Lord, I feel like I'm dying..
- 7:20 pm, July 19, 2009
- Anonymous said...
bad company
- 8:34 pm, July 19, 2009
- don't check this out! said...
you eat meat right?
- 8:45 pm, July 19, 2009
- Jason Kephas said...
oh JF heaven is pure genius. my grandfather was a milkman too.
AND he's dead!
- 10:55 am, July 20, 2009


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Javier Santa, Gabriel Cole and Nina Maso started Barcelona-based Santa and Cole in 1985. The three focused on industrial design and sought out modern light fixtures that provided more than mass or function. They were looking for pieces that instilled a sense of serenity, culture and well-being.
The Basica Table Lamp was their first major find and established the company in the European lighting field. In 1989, they became a distributor for many brands including Ingo Maurer (Spain).
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Galileo IOV launch services contract signed
Yesterday at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, ESA and Arianespace signed a contract for the launch of the first four operational Galileo satellites on two Soyuz launch vehicles from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
ESA's Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities, Mr René Oosterlinck, and the Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, Mr Jean-Yves Le Gall, signed the launch services contract in the presence of Mr Paul Verhoef, Programme Manager of EU Satellite Navigation Programmes at the European Commission. The Galileo In-Orbit Validation (IOV) Launch Services Contract covers the launch of the first four operational Galileo satellites using two Soyuz launch vehicles that will lift off from the Guiana Space Centre (Centre Spatial Guyanais – CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
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Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, the prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5: Phantom Pain, will ship with PlayStation exclusive content, Hideo Kojima has revealed.
The news was revealed in a snap from Kojima, which shows a screen detailing Ground Zeroes.
"Prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain," reads the text. "Takes place in 1975 after Peace Walker and nine years before The Phantom Pain. Multiple missions with central story mode and side-ops missions.
"Exclusive content for PlayStation platform."
Konami has yet to formally confirm PlayStation exclusive content for Ground Zeroes, or suggest what that content may be.
Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes launches on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in spring 2014.
Source: @Kojima_Hideo


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Russian Hotel OTA Travel.ru (Oktogo) Integrates with eRevMax for Advanced XML Connectivity
Connected hotels to benefit from live ARI update and reservation delivery functionality
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)-- Leading Russian online hotel booking agency Oktogo.ru, now rebranded as Travel.ru has completed a two-way direct XML connection with eRevMax for seamless rate and booking management. Hotel companies partnering with Oktogo will now be able to make real-time ARI (Availability, Rates & Inventory) updates and receive bookings generated on these channels through eRevMax solutions directly into their property management system. Travel.ru will also benefit from eRevMax's Reservation Delivery service, which facilitates automatic transfer of reservations data booked through its site.
Following the 2-way XML interface certification with eRevMax, Travel.ru joins the eRevMax Channel Ecosystem, thereby gaining access to a broader range of hotel product to complement their growth plans across Europe, and can expect to see improved booking conversion on existing accounts. Travel.ru has the largest database of hotels online in the Russian cities, with over 5,000 domestic properties and over 350,000 hotels worldwide.
"We are glad to announce our partnership with eRevMax that shall help grow our hotel network both in Russia and CIS countries. I believe that our hotel partners and customers will also benefit from it, as eRevMax strives to deliver some of the most up-to-date rates and availability to online travel agencies while reducing scope for overbookings," said Marina Kolesnik, CEO, Travel.ru (formerly Oktogo.ru).
Hotels can leverage Travel.ru for improving market reach in Russia, as the travel site is designed specifically for Russian travelers. Russia is one of the fastest growing online travel markets in Europe and is valued at more than $10 billion in 2013. The website attracts more than 1 million unique visitors each month. This offers immense opportunities for accommodation providers to get in front of a larger traveler base through eRevMax's sophisticated real-time channel management technologies, making sure they push availability, rates and inventory for improved online revenues.
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How many times have you looked at a kid meticulously lining up a series of blocks, or refusing to eat anything green on their plate, or carefully putting on their socks in just the right way (because, duh, otherwise the seams press into their toes!) and thought, "Man, that kid is going to be totally OCD when she grows up." Well, it turns out you might not be that far off.
According to new research conducted by Professor Reuven Dar of Tel Aviv University, there is a strong connection between children who are hypersensitive and focus on following strict rituals and adults who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Professor Dar found that there is a direct correlation between the way our nervous systems process sensory input and our development of ritualistic behaviors:
When children experience heightened levels of sensitivity, they develop ritualistic behaviors to better cope with their environment. In the long term, this is one potential pathway to OCD.
Professor Dar conducted two different studies to determine this connection. The first asked parents of kindergartners to fill out questionnaires about their child's need for ritual, their habits of repeating certain actions or ordering objects in specific ways, their anxieties, and their reactions to sensations like being touched or smelling or tasting something unusual. The second study asked adults to fill out surveys about "their OCD tendencies, their anxiety levels, and their past and current sensitivity to oral and tactile stimulation." Taken in combination, the studies established a link between OCD tendencies and high levels of sensitivity:
In children, hypersensitivity was an indicator of ritualism, whereas in adults it was related to OCD symptoms. As a whole, these findings provide preliminary support for the idea that such sensitivities are a precursor to OCD symptoms.
Dar believes that when kids are extra sensitive, they experience sensations in such a heightened way that it can feel like they're being attacked; they develop rituals as a way of protecting themselves against these sensory overloads and to help them "regain a sense of control." This behavior is also a symptom of adult OCD. While the connection makes sense, further longitudinal studies are needed to confirm the link between childhood and adult ritualistic behaviors.
Of course, there are plenty of reasons kids obsess over things, so don't stress too much about the chances of him or having OCD. In terms of potential warning signs, Dar says, "If you see that a child is very rigid with rituals, becoming anxious if unable to engage in this behavior, it is more alarming." But it also depends on the child's age. In a five- or six-year-old, it might not be an indication of future OCD, but if it's happening past the time a child is eight, then it could be a red flag, particularly if they suffer from anxiety.
Childhood Hypersensitivity Linked to OCD [ScienceDaily]
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Performs imaging procedures at a technical level. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in the specific age range on their assigned clinical area.
Works under the general supervision of the Team Leader or Technical Specialist.
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Requires three to six months on-the-job training to become familiar with all job duties.
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One of the nation's most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Geisinger is known for its focus on caring and innovative programs including the ProvenCare® best-practice approach to maximize quality, safety and value; ProvenHealth Navigator® advanced medical home; Springboard Health® population health program to improve the health of an entire community; ProvenExperience™ to provide refunds to patients unhappy with their care experience; and Geisinger's MyCode® Community Health Initiative, the largest healthcare system-based precision health project in the world. With more than 215,000 volunteer participants enrolled, MyCode is conducting extensive research and returning medically actionable results to participants. A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Repeatedly recognized nationally for integration, quality and service, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to patient care, medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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The Flying Dutch approach the 2010-11 season with optimism behind a roster of veterans who a year ago advanced the team to the national championship game.
Coach Brian Morehouse begins his 15th season as the helm of a team that has won 20-or-more games a school-record 12 straight years. The Flying Dutch posted a 32-2 record in 2009-10 and advanced to the Elite Eight for a third straight season. The loss in the championship game to Washington-St. Louis marked the third year in-a-row that the Flying Dutch were eliminated by the eventual national champion. Morehouse ranks among the winningest active NCAA Division III coaches with a 348-60 (.853) record. His teams the past five seasons have posted a 147-10 mark.
This year's 15-player roster includes 12 returning letterwinners. There are two freshmen, six sophomores, two juniors and five seniors.
The Flying Dutch approach the campaign picked second in a pre-season Division III poll conduct by Women's DIII News.
Co-captains of the team are junior Allie Cerone of Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton North HS) and seniors Erika Bruinsma of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids Christian HS), Miranda DeKuiper of Ludington (Ludington HS), and Carrie Snikkers of Jenison (Unity Christian HS).
The other seniors on the team are Lauren Geers of Scottville (Mason County Central HS) and Rachael Kutney of St. Clair Shores (Lake Shore HS). All five seniors have lettered three seasons on the varsity.
Other returning letterwinners include sophomore Olivia Allore of Muskegon (Catholic Central HS), sophomore Ashley Bauman of Manistee (Manistee Catholic Central HS), sophomore Liz Ellis of Grand Rapids (East Grand Rapids HS), sophomore Meredith Kussmaul of Hartland (Hartland HS), sophomore Courtney Kust of Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati Christian Academy, and sophomore Jillian Nichols of Brighton (Brighton HS).
Players new to the varsity include freshman Brittany Berry of Grand Rapids (Catholic Central HS), junior transfer Maddie Burnett of Grand Rapids (Northview HS/GVSU), and freshman Katie Overway of Holland (West Ottawa HS).
A year ago Carrie Snikkers was voted the NCAA Division III State Farm/WBCA player of the year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). She has been a team co-captain for two seasons and has a career average of 12.2 points per game.She is 11 points shy of becoming the 11th Hope women's basketball player to score 1,000 points.
The team opens its season with a three-game homestand at DeVos Fieldhouse where the Flying Dutch have a current 61-game home floor winning streak. Among season highlight games will be a December 29th meeting with defending national champion Washington-St. Louis at a tournament hosted by Ohio Wesleyan. Last March Washington defeated Hope 65-59 in the national championship game.


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CHICO — About 200 more students will be accepted for the fall semester at Chico State University because the California State University expects to receive an additional $125 million.
"We have been told to admit more students," said Allan Bee, Chico State's director of admissions, in a phone interview Tuesday.
Officials at the Chico campus intended to keep enrollment for the fall of 2013 at the same level it was in fall of 2012 — 16,400 students, Bee told this newspaper in December.
Things changed in January, when Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a 2013-14 state budget that included an allocation to the CSU that was $125 million higher than the university system received the year before.
Chancellor Timothy White and his staff decided to plan on using $38.9 million of the new money to increase enrollment at the 23 campuses by about 1.2 percent, which would be around 6,000 new students.
On Feb. 27, Chico State was told by the Chancellor's Office to increase its enrollment by 1.2 percent, said Barbara Fortin, the local campus' vice-provost for enrollment management services.
After that, Chico State officials began figuring out how many additional letters of acceptance would need to be sent out to enroll 206 more new students.
Fortin said she hoped that within the next week, letters would go out inviting about 600 more applicants to enroll at Chico State.
Of the students who receive acceptance letters from Chico State, about 22 percent enroll at the campus, she said.
It's good news that enrollment can be increased, Bee said. "We have had so many applications. Now we will be able to accommodate more of them."
Applications for fall of 2013 at Chico State set a record — there were 26,019. The previous record was set when 22,497 people applied for fall of 2012.
Bee said it was hoped that 4,700 new students would enroll at Chico State next fall. Now that number will jump to 4,906.
"We are trying to rebuild enrollment to where it was in 2008," Bee said. That fall, it was the highest ever at about 17,000.
It seems possible that enrollment will continue to grow at Chico State because the governor has proposed increasing funding for the CSU over four years.
Brown wants to boost funding by $140 million in 2014-15, $124 million in 2015-16, and $129 million in 2016-17.
To enroll more students, the CSU needs more money, to hire additional instructors and staff who provide services such as advising, food services and many other things.
Like Bee, Katie Simmons, chief executive officer of the Chico Chamber of Commerce, hopes enrollment keeps growing at the local campus.
"I think it's great," she said. "Increased enrollment is great for Chico."
Students spend money at local stores and restaurants, and they give a boost to the housing market, as well.
"We estimate that each enrolled student brings $40,000 a year to our city," Chico State President Paul Zingg wrote in an email. "That pretty much includes everything: their living expenses, entertainment expenses, a portion of tuition which translates into university spending on local services, spending by their family and friends when visiting, etc. This figure has been pretty constant for several years."
Of course, the CSU can't be sure it will receive the extra $125 million the governor wants to provide in the new budget for next year, let alone the additions in the three following years.
In May, Brown will issue a new version of his budget, revised according to how much tax money has been flowing to the state. And then the Legislature must vote to approve the budget before it becomes final. Along the way, the $125 million could be reduced, or even eliminated.
If Chico State gets less than a 1.2 percent increase in state funding, it would have to reduce enrollment for the next spring semester, Bee said.


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ZTE Corporation is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and systems company headquartered in Shenzhen, China. December 27, 2013
ZTE operates in three business units - Carrier Networks (54%)-Terminals (29%)-Telecommunication (17%). ZTE's core products are wireless, exchange, access, optical transmission, and data telecommunications gear; mobile phones; and telecommunications software.[1] It also offers products that provide value-added services,[2] such as video on demand and streaming media.[3] ZTE primarily sells products under its own name but it is also an OEM.[4]
ZTE is one of the top five largest smartphone manufacturers in its home market,[5] and in the top ten, worldwide.
ZTE, initially founded as Zhongxing Semiconductor Co., Ltd in Shenzhen, China, in 1985, was incorporated by a group of investors associated with China's Ministry of Aerospace.[6] In March 1993, Zhongxing Semiconductor has changed its name to Zhongxing New Telecommunications Equipment Co., Ltd with capital of RMB 3 million, and created a new business model as a "state-owned and private-operating" economic entity. Ties to the state notwithstanding, the corporation has evolved into ZTE Corporation of being publicly traded having made an initial public offering (IPO) on the Shenzhen stock exchange in 1997 and another on the Hong Kong stock exchange in December, 2004.[6]
While the company initially profited from domestic sales,[7] it vowed to use money from its 2004 Hong Kong IPO to further expand R&D, overseas sales to developed nations, and overseas production.[8] Making headway in the international telecom market in 2006, it took 40% of new global orders for CDMA networks[9] topping the world CDMA equipment market by number of shipments.[10] That same year also saw ZTE find a customer in the Canadian Telus[11] and membership in the Wi-Fi Alliance.[12] More customers in developed nations soon followed Telus' lead, and in 2007 ZTE had sold to UK's Vodafone, Spain's Telefonica, and the Australian Telstra,[11] as well as garnering the greatest number of CDMA contracts globally.[13] By 2008 ZTE could claim its customer base was truly global, as it had made sales in 140 countries.[11]
In 2009, the company had become the worldwide third-largest vendor of GSM telecom equipment, and about 20% of all GSM gear sold throughout the world that year was ZTE branded.[14] As of 2011 it holds around 7% of the key 3GPP Long Term Evolution patents[15] and that same year launched the world's first smartphone with dual GPS/GLONASS navigation, MTS 945. ZTE claims to devote 10% of its annual revenue on research and development each year, and it could be producing patents and utility licenses at a furious pace.[16][17] ZTE has filed 48,000 patents globally, and with more than 13,000 patents granted. 90% more patents are invention-related. In two consecutive years (2011 and 2012), ZTE has been granted the largest number of patent applications globally,[18] which is the first for a Chinese company.[19]
ZTE has several international subsidiaries.
PT. ZTE IndonesiaEdit
PT ZTE Indonesia were representative of ZTE with has many customer with PT Telkom Indonesia tbk, PT Telekomunikasi Seluler tbk, PT Indosat tbk, PT Smartfren tbk, PT XL Axiata, and also supply hand held with ZTE Trademarks.
ZTE (Australia) Pty LtdEdit
ZTE entered the Australian market in 2005,[20] and as of 2009 ZTE (Australia) Pty Ltd[21] acts as the exclusive supplier of ZTE handsets, network cards, and other products to customers, such as Telstra, in Australia.
ZTE Deutschland GmbHEdit
ZTE Deutschland GmbH was founded in 2005 with headquarters in Düsseldorf; it, as of 2008, had hired 50 people, 60% of whom were recruited locally.[22]
ZTE USA IncEdit
A North American subsidiary of ZTE,[23] with headquarters in Richardson, Texas,[24] ZTE USA Inc offers wireless handset and networking solutions in the US. ZTE USA partners with NBA's Houston Rockets for the season of 2013-2014[23]
ZTE (HK) LtdEdit
ZTE (Hong Kong) Ltd. (China) serves in such areas as global contract manufacturing.
ZTE do Brasil Ltda.Edit
ZTE do Brasil Ltda. was founded in 2002 with headquarters in São Paulo and offices in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília; providing mobile devices and network solutions for the Brazilian market.
ZTE Pakistan Pvt LtdEdit
ZTE[25] was introduced in the Pakistani market in 1999 with its headquarters in Islamabad and major offices in Lahore and Karachi. Providing Telecom Equipment, Network Solutions and Managed Services to telecom operators in Pakistan i.e. PTCL, Telenor, Zong, SCO
ZTE operates in three business segments - Carrier Networks (~54%)-Terminals (~29%)-Telecommunication (~17%) Products can be roughly arranged into three categories: equipment used by network operators (links and nodes, etc.), equipment used to access networks (terminals), and services, which includes software.[26] On October 2010, ZTE's unified encryption module received U.S./Canada FIPS140-2 security certification,[27] which made ZTE the first vendor from P.R. China to successfully validate modules according to the NIST FIPS140-2 standard under the CMVP program.[28]
Consumer electronicsEdit
- Mobile phones
As of 2012, ZTE is the 4th largest mobile phone vendor.[29] It also placed within IDC's Top 5 smartphone vendor leaderboard.[30][31] Strategy Analytics counts ZTE as 4th largest smartphone vendor (5% market share) in 2Q 2013.[32] It also manufactures tablets.[33][34][35]
- Mobile Hotspots
The MF60 and MF80 4G mobile hotspots were announced in August 2011.[36]
- Windows Phone
At Mobile World Congress 2014 in Spain, Microsoft announced that ZTE is the latest hardware partner of Windows Phone platform.[37]
Network Operators Equipment, Network Nodes and Network ElementsEdit
ZTE is also a provider of Core Routing and Core Network equipment, also known as Network Elements such as:
- ZTE ZXR10-Series Core Switches and Core Routers
- MPLS routers[38]
- Base stations, some of them developed with OBSAI - Open Base Station Architecture Initiative architecture, including China-specific Time-Division Long-Term Evolution aka TD-LTE radio protocol support and CDMA-based EV-DO equipment
- Telephone switches
- legacy WAP and MMSC equipment
- WiMax products, based on ZTE SDR platform, part of the Uni-RAN solution, Uni-Core core network equipment, and services to support the launch of the WiMAX 4G network over 3.5 GHz frequencies.
- SDN / NFV products as seen through Open Daylight Project
A good number of ZTE's customers are outside of China. During the 2000s, the majority were developing country mobile network operators, but ZTE products see use in developed countries as well. The UK's Vodafone, Canadian Telus, Australia's Telstra, as well as France Telecom have all purchased equipment from ZTE.[39]
Many Chinese companies are also ZTE customers, including China Netcom,[40] China Mobile,[41] China Satcom,[42] China Telecom,[43] and China Unicom.[2]
In the United States, ZTE USA manufactures mobile phones and broadband devices for multiple wireless carriers including AT&T, Boost Mobile, Cricket Wireless, MetroPCS, Sprint, T-Mobile, TracFone, Verizon, and Virgin Mobile. It may also sell network equipment to these carriers.
Bribes for contractsEdit
- Norway
Norwegian telecommunications giant Telenor, one of the world's largest mobile operators, banned ZTE from "participating in tenders and new business opportunities because of an alleged breach of its code of conduct in a procurement proceeding" during a five-month time span ending in March 2009.[44]
- Philippines
Contract negotiations to build a broadband network for the Philippine government may have included improper activities.[45] The project was later canceled.[45]
Surveillance system saleEdit
In December 2010, ZTE sold systems for eavesdropping on phone and Internet communications to the government-controlled Telecommunication Company of Iran.[46] This system may help Iran monitor and track political dissidents.
Handset securityEdit
At least one ZTE mobile phone (sold as the ZTE Score in the United States by Cricket and MetroPCS) can be remotely accessed by anyone with an easily obtained password.[29]
In 2012, politicians in the United States of America raised other security concerns regarding ZTE and another Chinese wireless equipment manufacturer, Huawei.[47]
- ↑ Product Portfolio ZTE Official Site
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 ZTE Secures More than Half of China Unicom GSM Value-Added Service System 2008 Tender ZTE Official Site, 2008-12-15
- ↑ ZTE Corp's Company Description Businessweek.com
- ↑ UPDATE 3-LSI sees second half better than first reuters.com, Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:14pm EST
- ↑ For top five in China, see "Apple Competes for Bigger Slice of China's Smartphone Market Share." Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Al Bawaba (Middle East) Ltd. 2014. HighBeam Research. 22 May. 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 20 Years History of ZTE Corporation by Mr. Huang Guo in 2005 h http://wwwen.zte.com.cn/endata/magazine/ztecommunications/2005year/no2/articles/200506/t20050622_162340.html
- ↑ UPDATE 1-ZTE says 2010 net profit up 32 pct on better sales reuters.com, Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:33am EST
- ↑ A Global Telecom Titan Called...ZTE? Businessweek.com, March 7, 2005
- ↑ China-based Huawei and Murali make headway in global telecom market DigiTimes.com. March 9, 2007
- ↑ ZTE tops 2006 international CDMA market. CIOL Bureau. March 8, 2007
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 History ZTE Official Site
- ↑ ZTE joins Wi-Fi Alliance----- one of the first Chinese members ZTE Official Site, 2006-08-30
- ↑ ZTE Tops 2007 Global CDMA Market ZTE Official Site, 2008-01-30
- ↑ INTERVIEW-China's ZTE aims for fifth of global GSM gear market reuters.com, Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:53pm EST
- ↑ China's ZTE targets 10 pct of LTE patents reuters.com, Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:07am EST
- ↑ Template:Cite web
- ↑ Strong Growth in Demand for Intellectual Property Rights in 2012 http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2013/article_0006.html
- ↑ WIPO declared ZTE as No.1 patent application in 2012, and in 2011. http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2013/article_0006.html http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2012/article_0001.html
- ↑ Yahoo reported ZTE as first Chinese company to rank No.1 in global patent applications. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/zte-ranked-world-no-1-020900609.html
- ↑ About ZTE ZTE Australia Official Site
- ↑ Global Sales Offices > Asia Pacific ZTE Official Site
- ↑ ZTE opens new office in Bonn, Germany ZTE Official Site, 2008-11-18
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Pocket Communications Launches ZTE's Tri-Band C79 and C78 ZTE Official Site,2009-04-02
- ↑ ZTE Opens LTE Laboratory in North America ZTE Official Site, 2009-10-20
- ↑ [1] ZTE Pakistan Official Site
- ↑ Template:Cite news
- ↑ NIST website for security certifications http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp1586.pdf http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140sp/140sp1589.pdf
- ↑ ATSEC participated in ZTE products security evaluations http://www.atsec.com/us/news-zte-products-receive-fips-140-2-certification-from-cmvp-241.html
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Template:Cite news
- ↑ IDC: Samsung extends lead over Apple while Chinese vendors increase influence http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/25/idc-samsung-extends-lead-over-apple-q4-2012-smartphones/
- ↑ IDC: Growth Accelerates in the Worldwide Mobile Phone and Smartphone Markets in the second Quarter, 2013 http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24239313
- ↑ Strategy Analytics: Global Smartphone shipments Hit Record 230 Million Units in Q2 2013 http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/WSS/post/2013/07/26/Strategy-Analytics-Global-Smartphone-Shipments-Hit-Record-230-Million-Units-in-Q2-2013.aspx
- ↑ ZTE Launches Two Android Tablets: Dual-core Z-pad and Android 3.0 V11 at MWC
- ↑ ZTE V9 Android tablet revealed androidcommunity.com, 12 October 2010
- ↑ V9 product page ZTE Official Site
- ↑ [2]Template:Dead link
- ↑ Template:Cite web
- ↑ http://pol01.sienn.com/s4tech/datasheet/ZXR10_M6000_datasheet.pdf
- ↑ For Vodafone and France Telecom sales, see ZTE Wins China Mobile WAP Expansion Contract ZTE Official Site, 20071016
- For Telus sales, see ZTE Breaks into North America with First Shipment of 3G Terminals for Canada ZTE Official Site, 2006/09/26
- For Public Mobile sales, see ZTE Partners with Public Mobile to Build CDMA Network in Canada ZTE Official Site, 2010-06-03
- ↑ China Netcom´s first IPTV agreement confirms ZTE as major international IPTV network provider ZTE Official Site, 20060830
- ZTE to Build World's First AVSIPTV Commercial Network with China Netcom Group ZTE Official Site, 20071206
- ↑ ZTE to Install the World´s Largest Optical Transmission Network ZTE Official Site, 20060830
- ZTE Partners with China Mobile to Complete IndustryFirst Commercial IMSBased HD Video Conference System ZTE Official Site, 20091127
- ↑ ZTE and China Satcom to provide GoTa network for China´s 10th National Games ZTE Official Site, 20060830
- ↑ ZTE Bags Major Value Added Services Contracts in China ZTE Official Site, 2006/11/14
- ZTE bags China Telecom´s largest metropolitan NGN project ZTE Official Site, 20060830
- ZTE Inks 1.33 billion RMB CDMA Contract with China Telecom ZTE Official Site, 20081120
- ZTE Exclusively Awarded IPTV Project by China Telecom, Jiangsu Branch ZTE Official Site, 20060830
- ZTE to install first polyphonic ringtone gateway for China Telecom ZTE Official Site, 20060830
- ZTE Strengthens Competitive Position with Third China Telecom IPTV Project ZTE Official Site, 20060830
- ZTE Helps China Telecom Achieve the Recognition as First in the World to Offer EPONbased 3G Services ZTE Official Site, 20090407
- ZTE Collaborates with China Telecom to Build IMS Network Solution ZTE Official Site, 20091130
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"I think that he has crossed the line," said F. Christopher Arterton, dean of George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management.
"Charlie Rangel is a prominent public servant and may deserve a center at City College. . . . But I think one has to be careful about how one raises the money for that. The danger is that it begins to blur the lines between whether a quid pro quo is implied by this or not."
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel is soliciting donations from corporations with business interests before his panel, hoping to raise $30 million for a new academic center that will house his papers when he retires.
Rangel's Pet Cause Bears His Own Name
The New York Democrat has penned letters on congressional stationery and has sought meetings to ask for corporate and foundation contributions for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York, a project that caused controversy last year when he won a $1.9 million congressional earmark to help start it. Republican critics dubbed the project Rangel's "Monument to Me."
The congressman has corralled more federal money as well, securing two Department of Housing and Urban Development grants totaling $690,500 to help renovate the college-owned Harlem brownstone that will house the center, according to HUD and school officials.
"It is a personal dream of mine to see this Center at City College, which resides in my congressional district and where so many talented young men and women from the community have gotten an excellent education," Rangel wrote in a March 7, 2007, letter to real estate mogul Donald Trump, one of the business leaders the congressman has solicited.
Ethics experts and government watchdogs say it is troubling that one of the nation's most powerful lawmakers would seek money from businesses that have interests before the committee he leads. Rangel's panel has broad jurisdiction over tax policy, trade, Social Security and Medicare.
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Reasons Men Marry Some Women & Not Others: The 'Reasons' Will Shock You (READ)
I'm gonna share this with y'all because it's just too rich to not tell someone. I am chatting, right now as I type, with a dude who claims to be interested in dating me, another Facebook friend who is enamored by my apparent ability to be charming in the few lines of a status update. Real life, eh. But social media, I'm slaying 'em. Anyway, he just told me that among the other qualities I appear to possess, I'm pretty, but not too pretty, and that's one of the things he likes about me.
Join me in a long, blank stare, won't you? It's not that I think I'm gorg. Far from it. But is that the kind of thing you say to a woman when you're trying to win her over? Can't fault the man for keeping it really real, I guess.
That leads me to the original intent of this post, which is not to divulge secrets about socially clumsy come-on lines. I stumbled across an email a friend sent like three years ago, six pages of findings from 2,000 interviews and research that were part of a book outline by author John T. Molloy. The title of the book itself was inflammatory: Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others.
In true Janelle fashion, I'd printed out the email with the intent to read it later. But it's funny that it should reemerge now, considering Molloy says, statistically, women who are a) over 35 and b) overweight are much less likely to get married.
(Looks at my birth certificate. Looks at the bulge hanging over the waistband of my Hello Kitty pajamas. If both of those are true, seems like my chances are pretty slim. I, on the other hand, am not. I mean, I've got a few years until I'm 35 but it doesn't look like I'm riding on the fast track to romance. That and I love starches far too much to ever be considered thin.)
There are other guidelines Molloy says women should take into consideration in order to get hitched.
1. Insist on it.
2. If you find yourself in a dead-end relationship, move on.
3. Love yourself first.
4. Commit yourself to the idea of getting married.
5. Keep in shape, watch your weight, and take care of your appearance.
6. Time is running out—use time wisely in your search for the marrying man.
I guess for us gals approaching and beyond that 35-year mark, #6 should be boldfaced, highlighted, and set apart in strobe lights.
There's more age-based pandemonium. Molloy also attests out that a man is less likely to marry after the age of 37-38, even less so after he turns 43. Another time-crunch kicker: most men propose after 18 months, he says. If at the end of 22 months, he hasn't coughed up a ring, chances start to dwindle, and they plummet after 3.5 years. Beyond 7, you might as well pack up those white-gown-wearing dreams and move on.
Then there's this: If a woman is convinced that marriage is essential to her happiness, she is more likely to marry. Oh. And yet I've heard so many stories about a gal—living her life, not hating her singleness—just stumbling across The One. If you're convinced that marriage is essential to your happiness and then you never wind up getting married, does that mean you're destined to be incomplete? Or sad? Or sad and incomplete? Awww.
Basically, these "reasons" why some men marry some women boil down to a thin, young woman finding a dude who's at a point in his life where he's ready to settle down. And really, did anyone really need a book to tell them that? A show of hands, please.
I've already bemoaned the overwhelming number of folks, particularly guys, positioning themselves as relationship experts just so they can make a killing off of telling women what's wrong with us and what we need to do better in order to get married. The book was published back in 2004—well before this influx of know-it-alls started capitalizing. I'm just way late reading my notes. But really, is any of that information news to you?
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Help I have done a few water changes but it's still off the chart....
You didn't give many details so these are things to consider - what water are you using for your tank & water changes? How much water are you replacing when you perform a water change? If it's only 10%, that is not a sufficient quantity to turn your problem around. What's your bio load, the quantity & frequency of feeding? Do you use charcoal? You might have insufficient filtration or water movement. Do you have a sufficient cleanup crew? Are all inhabitants accounted for? A dead critter coupled with a subpar cleanup crew can definitely ruin a good tank day. Hope this helps.
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I have a 55 breeder with a 30 gallon sump. Approx 80# of live rock no fish or clean up crew. After the last time we moved all fish and corals made the move all went well after a few months every thing died. I kept the tank up and running adding top off water and water changes once a month of 20 gallons. I don't use charcoal. Run reef octopus 110 in the sump phosban reactor with gfo I have a 4 stage ro/di system. The local fish store was too high priced on new fish so I took a break for a while. A new place opened up in my neighborhood so now I'm lookin to get things going again before momma sells it.
The actions I have started to get things going back in the right direction are as follows.
I checked ph ok nitrites ok ammonia ok salt .025 ok nitrates over 160.
I cleaned the sump skimmer water change of 30 gallons twice over the pAst week just checked nitrates 10 minutes ago it's between 60-80. I'm getting ready to drain the tank rinse off the live rock in fresh salt water remove the sand and replace with new about 40 lbs and refill with fresh salt water yes or no?????
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I know this is an old thread but I had my maxijet fail that was running my hang on refugium. It was off for a few days. My old tank had huge nitrates, and I wound up changing 70 gallons on my 75 gallon tank in a week and a half. That worked to get the nitrates back down.


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How good are financial advisors at measuring the performance of mutual fund managers? Among retail investors, the use of inaccurate yardsticks like fund ratings and peer-group comparisons is fairly common.
Hopefully, advisors aren't making many, if any of, the same mistakes.
Let's examine three better ways to successfully judge fund performance.
1. Don't use peer group analysis
Many mutual fund analysts lead their followers astray by focusing on mutual-fund performance relative to its corresponding peer group. In truth, the correct measure should be fund performance versus a corresponding benchmark index.
"Peer group" comparisons are dangerous," explains William F. Sharpe, a Nobel Prize winner in economics. "Because the capitalization-weighted average performance of active managers will be inferior to that of a passive alternative, the former constitutes a poor measure for decision-making purposes. And because most peer-group averages are not capitalization-weighted, they are subject to additional biases."
How would this work in a real-life application?
For instance, you should compare international stock funds to international stock yardsticks like the MSCI EAFE Index (EFA).
Likewise, small- and mid-cap stock funds should be benchmarked to small- and mid-cap index funds like the S&P MidCap 400 (MDY) or the iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (IWM). Since ETFs tracking these benchmarks are readily available, monitoring relative performance is fairly easy.
Remember to always compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. And finally, always make sure you compare performance over the same time period.
2. Beware of closet indexers
Do your clients own active mutual funds that aren't really that active?
A closet index fund is an actively managed fund that closely mimics the volatility and performance of an index fund. How does it happen?
As mutual funds grow their assets, they buy more securities in order to reduce over-concentrated positions. Some fund companies will purposely avoid making large bets on certain stocks or bonds to avoid the risk of making a lousy call and badly underperforming.
What's the final result? A mutual-fund portfolio that looks and acts just like an index fund, but charges substantially higher fees.
How can you make sure you don't own a closet index fund? One way is to evaluate your fund's R-squared or R2.
The R-squared measures the correlation of a fund's movement in comparison to its corresponding benchmark. An R-squared score of 1.00 would indicate a perfect correlation, whereas a score of 0.00 indicates no correlation.
Think twice about owning any actively managed mutual funds with an R-squared above 95. It could be the sure sign of a benchmark hugger!
3. Avoid high turnover funds
Is your mutual fund manager a long-term investor like they preach or are they an imposter? One way to find out is to examine the churn or turnover rate of holdings within your mutual fund's portfolio.
Portfolio turnover measures the frequency by which securities within a mutual fund are bought and sold. A churn rate of 100% indicates the fund manager has sold the fund's entire portfolio and bought new holdings during the course of a year. Turnover is determined by the dollar value of buys or sells (whichever is less) during a year divided by the total assets in the fund.
High portfolio turnover translates into higher investment costs, whereas low portfolio turnover is better because it lessens the impact of trading and tax related expenses. The fact that index funds and ETFs have a low turnover rate makes them an attractive investment choice.
In summary, these three simple yardsticks can help advisors to make sure their mutual funds are staying on track.


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School of Physics wins prestigious Pawsey Medal for tenth time
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Bryan Gaensler, Professor of Physics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy within the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, has won the highly prestigious Pawsey Medal.
The Pawsey Medal is awarded annually by the Australian Academy of Science and recognises outstanding Australian research in physics by scientists less than 40 years of age.
This is the tenth occasion on which a staff member at the School of Physics has been awarded this honour, a remarkable achievement. Previous winners include Professor Kostya Ostrikov in 2008 and Professor Benjamin Eggleton in 2007.
Professor Gaensler received the award for his pioneering studies of cosmic magnetism which have opened a new window on the Universe.
He has developed innovative new spectropolarimetric techniques, and has then used them to derive detailed three-dimensional maps of large-scale magnetic fields in the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds and in distant galaxies.
His experiments reveal what cosmic magnets look like and what role they have played in the evolving Universe. They have led to the selection of Cosmic Magnetism as a key science project for the Square Kilometre Array, a planned next-generation radio telescope for which Western Australia is one of the two contenders.
As a by-product of studying astrophysical magnetism, Professor Gaensler has also made the stunning discovery that the Milky Way is twice as thick as was previously thought, a result that fundamentally changes our understanding of our home Galaxy.
"It's a huge honour to be recognised in this way by a body as distinguished as the Academy of Science," Professor Gaensler said.
"Australian astronomy is headed in some very exciting directions right now, and it's wonderful to be able to play a part in this adventure."
Looking to the future, Professor Gaensler is about to take on a major new role as an Australian Laureate Fellow, commencing in early 2011. He plans to determine the overall magnetic field of the Universe, one of the final unsolved problems in cosmology.
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Declaration by High Representative Catherine Ashton on behalf of the European Union on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2012
Today, on 10 December, we celebrate Human Rights Day. Standing up for Human Rights, democracy and the rule of law is the silver thread that runs through EU external relations.
This year we look back on a productive year for the EU in human rights. The EU adopted a Human Rights Strategy to enhance the effectiveness and consistency of EU human rights policy across the full range of its activities. We appointed the first EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Mr Stavros Lambrinidis, to promote human rights through dialogue with third countries as well as international and regional organisations. The EU was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2012 in recognition of its work on reconciliation, democracy and the promotion of human rights, which helped extend the area of peace and stability across the continent. It is fitting that the presentation of this prestigious prize comes on the day of the celebration of human rights.
The theme of this year's Human Rights Day is inclusion and the right to participate in public life. It is a particularly timely theme in light of the transitions to democracy that we are witnessing worldwide. A number of countries in our neighbourhood such asTunisia,LibyaandEgyptsuccessfully organised democratic elections in the past year, allowing many citizens to vote freely for the first time and offering them an opportunity to participate in the decisions affecting their future. This trend towards democracy was also apparent further afield. After decades of internal repression, dramatic changes are finally taking place in Burma/Myanmar. InSomalia, we welcomed the adoption of a new provisional Constitution and inSierra Leone, the recent elections were conducted in a peaceful environment.
Yet much remains to be done to support those who risk their lives in support of the fundamental values they believe in and in the hope of a better future for themselves and future generations. Holding elections can only be a first step towards deep democracy in which human rights take root. Rights need to be enshrined in society through law, but also through daily practice. The EU is conscious of renewed efforts by various governments to tighten restrictions on the legitimate activities of NGOs ? especially but not exclusively those that receive external funding. The EU is committed to supporting the vital work of civil society. In this context, a European Endowment for Democracy has been established as one concrete expression of the EU?s commitment to support democracy in the Neighbourhood and beyond.
We believe that everyone must be free to exercise their right to equal participation. Women and young people have been at the forefront of many of the democratic movements that we have witnessed this year and have been an inspiration to people around the world. People with disabilities still face obstacles in exercising their right to participate in public life, which must be addressed. The EU is committed to work with governments around the world, through multilateral and international organisations and in a spirit of genuine partnership with civil society to support new democracies and ensure the right to inclusion and participation in public life can become a concrete reality for all.
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